"The Charter Writes the Truth about Lukashenka and His Puppets"

Readers congratulated the civil initiative and the Charter'97 website with the 20th anniversary.

The editorial office of Charter97.org would like to thank everyone for their congratulations and cites some comments received by it:

"Every morning I start with your information, and you've became a part of all not indifferent people! This is our common holiday!!! Thank you that you do your work! For the truth! Long Live Belarus!!!"

"Despite many alternative sources of information, my day starts and ends with the Charter-97. I take a bow!"

"Aliaksandr Ryhoravich, the Belarusian people have not read your state newspapers for long. They spit on your recorded and re-recorded TV programs released on a collective-farm channels like BT, has not long had trust in them with its allegedly fabulous life in Belarus!"

De-sovietization, Belarusization, Europeanization! Precisely these three decisive and unrelenting actions of the entire nationally-devoted society will restore independence, self-respect and civilization."

"The victory of the truth is inevitable. Good luck!"

"The best, the most talented journalists work here. Thanks to them we know the world in all its diversity - the way it is, and the way it should be! Just remember Iryna Khalip! THANK YOU!"

"First of all, thanks to Aleh Bebenin who created the Charter and its permanent editor Natallia Radzina. The Charter is the main podium and the voice of the people, where much is said as it really is. The essence of the current struggle of the Belarusians is all power to the PEOPLE and the creation of a democratic European society with the economy for the Belarusian people, and not for the family that has seized the power!"

"Lukashenka's dictatorship is absurd. It decayed long ago. Uladzimir Matskevich is right, we should be ready for a change of government"

" Anatol Maisyenya. Ihar Hermenchuk. Pyotr Martsau. Zmitser Zavadski. Veranika Charkasava. Volha Karatkevich. Paval Sharamet. Aleh Bebenin. Viktar Ivashkevich... We do miss you, guys.

"Joyeux anniversaire, Charter-97!!!"

For Natallia Radzina: "Thank you, Natallia, for your journalistic work, for your steadfastness, courage, for upholding the right to freedom of life! I learned about the Charter 97 website from young people a few years ago and now every day I start with the Charter. The Charter-97 is the University of advanced studies for me. I wish you, Natallia, and all the employees of the website health, success in this job. Well, there will be a common welfare as soon as we reach the change of the long-standing dictatorship."

For Andrei Sannikov: "I am proud of your courage, self-devotion, and faith during such a long fight for FREEDOM!!!"

"Ales Marachkin, congratulations with the 20th anniversary of the Charter-97." I wish you health and creative success. Belarus will inevitably get rid of the Lukashenka's stain!"

"Jauhen Afnahel is the Ironman of the Belarusian Revolution!"

To Pavel Zhuk: “I support your message. The newspaper “Svaboda” was a real breath of fresh air. I read it through, and there was much useful information on every single page, it was absolutely unputdownable. It’s very sad that its Editor-in-Chief Ihar Hermenchuk died so early, he was a God-gifted journalist. It’s a grief when such people pass away. I’d like to thank Pavel Zhuk for his active civil position, for everything he has done for our Motherland. I wish you luck and success in everything you do for the sake of our country, and we will do our best to help you.”

“Liudmila Hraznova, thank you for courage and honesty!”

To Ihar Varashkevich: “A real bison of the Belarusian rythm-and-blues. Thanks to the anniversary of the Charter’97, there appeared an opportunity to recall the years of the spirited youth, and many good people. Long Live “Krama”! Long Live Charter! Long Live our dear Belarus!”

To Mikalai Statkevich: “A serious person and sincere patriot of Belarus. It’s a surprise that there are such strong peole in the “tolerant” Belarus. I respect this man a lot.”

“De-Moscowization! All the rest comes from it.”

“This website is more often referred to than the official sources, which have long lost any connections with the reality. I can’t say I like everything but the work in Belarus is progressing in the right direction. Let this “engine” work forever, let there be only positive news in the future, unlike the “medieval news” that we are having today... I am just curious, how far behind Europe we are now?”

“Happy birthday, dear Charter’97! You are a silver lining. I wish you good health and successful work. We will win! Long Live Belarus!”

“Have a great holiday, dear Charter! I wake up and go to sleep with you! I hope the time will come when Belarus becomes free, with the president elected by the people, who will treat us all as decent citizens of our country!”

“Twenty is youth! The future belongs to you. Happy anniversary, Charter! This is what Belarusians should be like! And they will!”

“Happy birthday, Charter! They are talking about you at every corner. They are talking about the problems in Belarus. I think everyone is with you in their heart. The people are so intimidated that can only talk... However, I personally participate in demonstrations. I want more people to do it and not to be indifferent. I am so proud of you! I want to live up to the day when we will be able to say: “Yes, it has happened!”

“The Charter97.org is the only website that writes the truth about Luka and his bootlickers!”

“I am from Russia, which sometimes gets tongue-lashed here, but I read the Charter with pleasure since long ago. This is where I get real news. Flourish, Belarus! Long Live the White-Red-White Flag!”

“I am proud of having put my signature under the Charter’97 document back in November 1997 in the editor’s office of the newspaper Narodnaya Volya, and met poet Nil Hilevich there. Long Live Belarus!”

“When I visit press kiosks, I often see big piles of unsold Lukashenka newspapers and magazines, prepared for recycle. Summing up all the kiosks of the country for a week, we will get tons of non-realized printed matter... If we add newspapers and magazines which are not forced upon enterprises and organizations for obligatory subscription, we will get dozens of tons.

People don’t read unfree, deceitful Lukashenka press! No one will be brave enough to calculate just how much people’s money is wasted. The people as as much “interested” in television. We pay money and have nothing to watch. As for the Charter’97, for us, freedom-loving people, it’s a silver lining indeed, in the dark Lukashenka world. Happy anniversary, Charter’97! I wish you good health, success, interesting messages, articles and various publications!”

"Dear staff of the Charter’97, you are doing a very important job. People will know the truth from you, about the real situation in our country and in the world. In the comments, readers see that they are not alone, that they are supported by so many. Most importantly, the people are losing fear. Thanks to you this spring people came out to the squares of their towns and cities. There was no fear in the people’s eyes. The people ceased to be afraid, but those who seized and keep the power by deceit and lies are afraid now. Thank you for being there. "

"Do I get it right that the audience of the Radio Liberty is 45 times less than the Charter’s?"

"Thank you, friends, for being there. You are a breath of oxygen in a musty swamp of lies and gilded show-off. "

"The most important information space is the life around us. But the Charter provides an opportunity to see the world as it is and to teach people to see this world through the eyes of a free person. And it's worth a lot! "

"I AM THE PERSON OF THE OLD FORMATION, I WAKE UP AT 6 AM, AND MY DAY BEGINS FROM THE CHARTER AND A CUP Of COFFEE. I STOPPED WATCHING TV 7-8 YEARS AGO. EVERYTHING I NEED IS ON THIS WEBSITE. THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE".

"Charter - All People's Party!"